The Bluegrass Songbook
The Bluegrass Album
Side One
Blue Ridge Cabin Home
We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore
Molly And Tenbrooks
I Believe In You Darling
Model Church
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2
3
4
5
Side Two
On My Way Back To The Old Home
Gonna Settle Down
Toy Heart
Pain In My heart
Chalk Up Another One
River Of Death
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7
8
9
10
11
The Bluegrass Album Volume Two
Side One
Your Love Is Like a Flower
We May Meet Again Someday
Take Me In The Lifeboat
Sitting Alone In The Moonlight
Back To The Cross
Just When I Needed You
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13
14
15
16
17
Side Two
One Tear
Ocean Of Diamonds
Is It Too Late Now
So Happy I’ll Be
Don’t This Road Look Rough And Rocky
I’ll Never Shed Another Tear
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19
20
21
22
23
The Bluegrass Album Volume Three
California Connection
Side One
Devil In Disguise
Letter From My Darlin
A Hundred Years From Now
Unfaithful One
Down The Road
I’d Rather Be Alone
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25
26
27
28
29
Side Two
Big Spike Hammer
Please Search Your Heart
Hey Lonesome
I’m Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling
Wall Around Your Heart
Come Back Darling
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31
32
33
34
35
The Bluegrass Album Volume Four
Side One
Age
Cheyenne
Cora Is Gone
The Old Home Town
Talk It All Over With Him
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37
38
39
Side Two
Head Over Heels
Nobody Loves Me
When You Are Lonely
I Might Take You Back Again
Lonesome Wind Blues
Somehow Tonight
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41
42
43
44
45
The Bluegrass Album Band
Sweet Sunny South
Side One
Rock Hearts
Big Black Train
Thinking About You
Out In The Cold World
On The Old Kentucky Shore
Preaching Praying Singing
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47
48
49
50
51
Side Two
Someone Took My Place With You
Foggy Mountain Rock
My Home’s Across The Blue Ridge Mountains
Along About Daybreak
Sweet Sunny South
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53
54
55
Blue Ridge Cabin Home
1. There’s a well beaten path on the old mountainside
Where I wandered when I was a lad
I wandered alone to a place I call home
In those Blue Ridge hills far away
CHORUS:
Oh I love those hills of old Virginia
Those Blue Ridge hills I did roam
When I die won’t you bury me on the mountain
Far away in my Blue Ridge Mountain home
2. As my thoughts wander back to that ramshackle shack
In those Blue Ridge hills far away
My mother and dad are laid there to rest
They are sleeping in peace together there
CHORUS
3. I returned to that old cabin home with the sight
I’d been longing for days gone by
When I die won’t you bury me on that old mountain side
Make my resting place upon the hills so high
CHORUS
CHORUS
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We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore
1. Darling you often said you loved me
But you’ve gone on before
You don’t know dear how I miss you
But we can’t be darlings anymore
CHORUS:
Darling I am sad and lonely
Since you’ve gone on before
So down here on this lonely earth dear
We can’t be darlings anymore
2. Until we meet up there in heaven
And we can walk the golden shore
For down here on this lonely earth dear
We can’t be darlings anymore
CHORUS
3. I have lost a million tears dear
Since you’ve left this world and gone
But we can never again be darlings
Till we meet around the throne
CHORUS
CHORUS
2
Molly And Tenbrooks
1. Run oh Molly run, run oh Molly run
Tenbrooks’s gonna beat you to the bright shining sun.
To the bright shining sun, Oh Lord, to the bright shining sun
2. Tenbrooks was a big bay horse he wore that shaggy mane
He run all around Memphis and he beat the Memphis train
Beat the Memphis train, oh Lord, beat the Memphis train
3. Tenbrooks said to Molly what made your head so red
Running in the hot sun with a fever in my head
Fever in my head, h Lord, fever in my head
4. Molly said to Tenbrooks you’re looking mighty squirrel
Tenbrooks said to Molly I’m leaving this old world
Leaving this old world, oh Lord, leaving this old world
5. Out in California where Molly done as she pleased
She came back to old Kentucky, got beat with all ease
Beat with all ease, oh Lord, beat with all ease
6. The women all a-laughing the children all a-crying
The men all a-hollering old Tenbrooks a-flying
Old Tenbrooks a-flying, oh Lord, old Tenbrooks a-flying
7. Kyper, Kyper, you’re not riding right
Molly’s beating old Tenbrooks clear out sight
Clear out of sight, oh Lord, clear out of sight
8. Kyper, Kyper, Kyper my son
Give old Tenbrooks a bridle and let old Tenbrooks run
Let old Tenbrooks run, oh Lord, let old Tenbrooks run
9. Go and fetch old Tenbrooks and hitch him in the shade
We’re gonna bury old Molly in a coffin ready made
Coffin ready made, oh Lord, coffin ready made
Let old Tenbrooks run, oh Lord, let old Tenbrooks run
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I Believed In You Darling
1. Oh you said that you loved me that your heart would be true
But now you’ve gone and left me, I’m so blue
I believed in you darling that your heart would be true
But now you’ve gone and left me, I’m so blue
CHORUS:
Our vows have been broken, you have proven untrue
Another has my sweetheart and a love that I once knew
I believed in you darling that your heart would be true
But now you’ve gone and left me, I’m so blue
2. Oh the nights are so lonely, dreams of you haunt me so
What’s happened little darling, I don’t know
I believed in you darling that your heart would be true
But now you’ve gone and left me, I’m so blue
CHORUS
4
Model Church
Well wife I’ve found a model church
And worshipped there today
It made me think of the good old times
Before my hair was gray
I tell you wife it did me good
To sing those hymns once more
I felt just like some wrecked marine
Who gets a glimpse of shore
The meetinghouse was finer built
Than they were years ago
But I found out when I went in
It was not built for show
It made want to lay aside
This weather beaten form
And anchor in that blessed port
Forever from the storm
The sexton did not sit me down
Away back by the door
He knew that I was old and deaf
And saw that I was poor
Dear wife the toil will soon be o’er
The victory soon be won
The shining strand is just ahead
Our race is nearly run
He must have been a Christian man
He led me boldly through
The long aisle of that crowded church
To find a pleasant pew
We’re near to Canaan’s happy shore
Our hopes are bright and fair
Thank God we’ll never sin again
There’ll be no sorrow there
I wish you’d heard the singing, wife
it had the old town ring
The preacher said with trumpet voice
Let all the people sing
There’ll be no sorrow there
In heaven above
Where all is love
There’ll be no sorrow there
Oh Coronation was the tune
The music upward roared
I thought I heard the angel choir
Strike on their harps of gold
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I’m On My Way Back To The Old Home
1. Back in the days of my childhood
In the evening when everything was still
We used to sit and listen to the foxhounds
With my dad in the old Kentucky hills
CHORUS:
I’m on my way back to the old home
The road winds on up the hill
But there’s no light in the window
That shines on the road where I live
2. Soon my childhood days were over
I had to leave my old home
For mum and dad were called to rest in heaven
And I’m left in this world all alone
CHORUS
3. High in the hills of old Kentucky
Stands the fondest spot in my memory
I’m on my way back to the old home
The light in the window I long to see
CHORUS
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Gonna Settle Down
1. Tonight I’m all alone no place to call my own
Don’t have no one to love me anymore
I’m gonna pack up my grip and take a long long trip
Back to the one that I love so
CHORUS:
Oh I long to go back to my darling
Back to the one I love so well
I know she’ll be my wife and we’ll settle down for life
Cause she’s the one that means the world to me
2. I can’t forget the day I left and went away
You told you me I’d be sorry some old day
I found it to be true so I’m heading back to you
Sweetheart I’m tired and I want to settle down
CHORUS
3. When I get back to her my rambling days are over
We’ll build a little cottage on the hill
We’ll think of days gone by sweetheart just you and I
And there we’ll live so happy ever more
CHORUS
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Toy Heart
CHORUS:
Darling, you toyed with toy heart
I think you played the game right from the start
This toy heart was broken when parting words were spoken
Darling, you toyed with a toy heart
1. You played with my poor heart like a toy
That toy broke and then we had to part
It never can be mended I hope this romance’s ended
Darling, you toyed with a toy heart
CHORUS
2. Now darling my time will come some day
Time alone will heal my broken heart
The clouds will roll away, the sun will shine someday
Darling, you toyed with a toy heart
CHORUS
3. Now darling you know you’ve done me wrong
Your love for me has passed and gone
I’ll find somebody new, I hope that they’ll be true
Darling you toyed with a toy heart
CHORUS
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Pain In My Heart
1. When I first I met you, right from the start
You’ve known that I loved you, from the pain in my heart
So look in my eyes and see that it’s true
And say that you love me, please don’t make me blue
CHORUS:
With pain in my heart and blues on my mind
I’ll always love you but can you be mine
Can you be mine with another man’s name
You know that I love you and I’m not to blame
2. Say that you love me and you will be mine
With pain in your heart and blues on your mind
Please say that you love me and don’t say goodbye
You know that I love you, for you I would die
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Chalk Up Another One
1. You should get a medal dear for every broken heart
For every life you’ve ruined cause you think you’re so smart
I never even had a chance and now my life is lost
Once more you’ve had your fun and you don’t care how much it cost
CHORUS:
Oh chalk up another one, another broken heart
Chalk up another one, a heart you tore apart
You picked me for a fool my dear how well I played the part
Chalk up another one, another broken heart
2. Broken vows and shattered dreams mean little dear to you
Cause once you said you love me and now you say were through
Well all is fair in love and war I guess you taught me so
Cause in this crazy game of love you hit an all time low
CHORUS
3. I have only pity in this evil life you choose
This unfair game you’re playing where everyone must lose
But let me tell you something some day you won’t forget
Add me to your collection and you’ll wish we never met
CHORUS
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River Of Death
1. Oh the river of death lies just before me
Can I find a place that I can cross
Or will I be in sin forever
Oh Lord don’t let my soul be lost
2. Oh I wanna walk with Christ my savior
For he’s the one that’ll guide me on
All through my life I’ve been a sinner
Now I’m right with God so I’m traveling home
3. Oh I can hear my savior calling
To me his voice sounds sweet and low
For me I hear my loved ones cheering
Oh, praise the Lord I’m ready to go
4. My life down here will soon be over
And this old world holds nothing for me
He saved my soul and He made me happy
That beautiful land I’m going to see
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Your Love Is Like A Flower
1. It was long, long ago in the moonlight
We were sitting on the banks of the stream
When you whispered so sweetly, I love you
As the waters murmured a tune
CHORUS:
Oh they tell me your love is like a flower
In the springtime blossoms so fair
In the fall then they wither away dear
And they tell me that’s the way of your love
2. I remember the night, little darling
We were talking of days gone by
When you told me you always would love me
That for me your love would never die
CHORUS
3. It was spring when you whispered these words dear
The flowers were all blooming so fair
But today as the snow falls around us
I can see that your love is not there
CHORUS
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We May Meet Again Someday
1. At my window sad and lonely
Often do I think of you
And I wonder little darling
If you think you love me too
CHORUS:
Don’t forget me little darling
When from you I’m far away
Just remember little darling
We may meet again someday
2. You may meet the saddest faces
Some will tell I’m not true
Don’t believe it little darling
No one loves you as I do
CHORUS
CHORUS
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Take Me In Your Lifeboat
CHORUS:
Take me in your lifeboat, oh
Take me in your lifeboat
It will stand the raging storm
Take me in your lifeboat, oh
Take me in your lifeboat
It will bear my spirit home.
1. Now come brothers and sisters and don’t fall asleep
We’ll pray night and day or we’ll sink in the deep
Fathers and mothers are praying so well
Oh Lord won’t you take me in your lifeboat.
CHORUS
2. The clouds are so heavy the winds are so loud
The thunder are rolling and bursting the clouds
They pray to their sinner mates for what they have done
They took the dying sinner in their lifeboat.
CHORUS
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Sitting Alone In The Moonlight
1. Sitting alone in the moonlight
Thinking of the days gone by
Wondering about my darling
I can still hear her saying goodbye
CHORUS:
Oh the moon grows pale as I sit here
Each little star seems to whisper and say
Your sweetheart has found another
And now she’s far far away
(Repeat verse and chorus)
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Back To The Cross
1. I’m out on the sea filled with sorrows
Tossed like a ship who ran ashore
I’m seeking the help of my savior
By the way of the cross I must go
CHORUS:
Back to the cross and to Jesus
Back to the cross I am called
I’ve drifted too far and I’ve wandered
From the savior that once was my home
2. The sins of this world have overcome me
Have pushed and left me to roam
So I’m going to back to my savior
Back to the cross and home
CHORUS
3. The joy of these life are too fleeting
And wrapped in troubles around
I’ve lost the church of the stranger
I’ve drifted too far from home
CHORUS
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Just When I Needed You
1. Just when I needed you, you left and went away
You made my life so blue both night and day
You left me here behind with a troubled worried mind
So broken hearted too just when I needed you
CHORUS:
I cried, I cried, I prayed, I tried
To forget you and never call your name
What a shame what a shame you’re the one that was to blame
You’re the one that proved untrue just when I needed you
2. You said it’s best we part and never love again
And though it broke my heart I won’t complain
You know I love you still and dear I always will
Although you proved untrue just when I needed you
CHORUS
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One Tear
CHORUS:
One tear won’t make a heartache
One tear won’t make a heart break
If the tear I shed today is all I’ll have to pay
One tear is all I’ve cried for you
1. I thought I’d never live without the tender love we shared
But absence only showed my heart I’ll never really care
I’m glad that it’s all over now I’m glad that we are through
One tear is all I’ve cried for you
CHORUS
2. I’ll live a happy life again and have my dreams come true
My heart will bounce right back again and never think of you
And then when you come asking me to take you back again
One tear is all I’ll cry for you
CHORUS
CHORUS
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Ocean Of Diamonds
1. Some people drink champagne out under the stars
While others drink wine leaning over a bar
But all that I need dear to make me feel fine
Is to know that your love will forever be mine
CHORUS:
I’d give an ocean of diamonds, a world filled with flowers
To hold you closely for just a few hours
Hear you whisper softly that you love me too
Would change all the dark clouds to bluest of blue
2. I don’t drink their champagne and I don’t drink their wine
So if you refuse me my poor heart will pine
I’ll be so lonely till the day that I die
And as long as I live dear you’ll still hear me cry
CHORUS
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Is It Too Late Now?
1. Is it too late now to tell you that I love you
Or is there still a chance for me somehow
Oh they tell me now that you have found another
Darling please don’t say it’s too late now
2. I know this heart of mine could never stand it
If I should have to give you up somehow
Oh won’t you say that you’ll give me one more chance dear
Darling please don’t say it’s too late now
3. Well I confess I know I done you wrong, dear
Oh can’t you see my side again somehow
All I ask of you is to give me one more chance dear
Darling please don’t say it’s too late now
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So Happy I’ll Be
1. I’m just waiting for the time to come
When all sorrow will be done,
Then I’m going home to heaven above
Where we shall sing with the angels up there
Tell the savior of his love and care
That he had for me in this world below
CHORUS:
So happy I’ll be when my savior I shall see
And tell him of his love that he had for me
No more sorrows or grief or pain
All the time will be the same
So happy I’ll be forever more
2. Some happy time just to wait and see
When blessed savior will come for me
Then I’m going home to heaven above
Where beloved ones have gone before
To that bright and shining shore
So happy I’ll be forever more
CHORUS
3. Oh, just think of the day, my friend,
When the saints go marching in
Then I’m going home to heaven above,
Oh, so happy I will be
When blessed savior I shall see
So happy I’ll be forever more
CHORUS
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Don’t This Road Look Rough And Rocky
1. Darling, I have come to tell you
Though it almost breaks my heart
But before the morning darling
We’ll be many miles apart
CHORUS:
Don’t this road look rough and rocky
Don’t that sea look wide and deep
Don’t my baby look the sweetest
When she’s in my arms asleep
2. Can’t you hear the night birds crying
Far across the deep blue sea
While of others you are thinking
Won’t you sometimes think of me
CHORUS
3. One more kiss before I leave you
One more kiss before we part
You have caused me lots of trouble
Darling you have broke my heart
CHORUS
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I’ll Never Shed Another Tear
1. I used to sit alone at night and worry little darling
For I thought you meant the world to me
But now things have changed and those days are gone forever
So I’ll never shed another tear
CHORUS:
I’ll never shed another tear now I don’t care what happens
You have proved your love untrue to me
There’s nothing you can do that will ever change my feelings
So I’ll never shed another tear
2. With a broken heart I’ll never forget the vows we made together
The many times you told me not to fear
But now you’ve forgotten and you’ve left me here forever
So I’ll never shed another tear
CHORUS
3. Now you should have told me dear that you were only fooling
Then I’d never learn to love you so
Then I wouldn’t have all these heartaches my darling
Dreading the day I see you go
CHORUS
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Devil In Disguise
CHORUS:
She’s a devil in disguise
You can see it in her eyes
She’s telling dirty lies
She’s a devil in disguise in disguise.
1. Now a woman like that all she does is hate you
She doesn’t know what makes a man a man
She’ll talk about the times that she’s been with you
She’ll speak your name with everyone she can.
CHORUS
2. Unhappiness has been her close companion
Her soul is full of jealousy and doubt
It gets her up to see a person crying
She’s just the kind that you can live without
CHORUS
3. Her number always turns up in your pocket
Whenever you are looking for a dime
Well it’s all right to call her but I’ll bet you
The moon is full and you’re just wasting time.
CHORUS
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Letter From My Darling
1. I can’t answer her letter
For she left me no address
You should know my little darling
You left my poor heart in distress
CHORUS:
I got a letter from my darling
She said she hated to go
It broke my heart the words she wrote me
She closed by saying I love you so
2. She wrote the words she knew would hurt me
She said I never could be true
I’ve tried I’ve tried my little darling
To prove my love was just for you
CHORUS
3. This letter meant goodbye forever
Though we’ll have each other’s hearts
Our love will fade away in sadness
Precious one why did we have to part
CHORUS
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A Hundred Years From Now
CHORUS:
Well a hundred years from now I won’t be crying
A hundred years from now I won’t be blue
And my heart will have forgotten that she broke every vow
I won’t care a hundred years from now
1. Oh, it seems like only yesterday you told me
You couldn’t live without my love somehow
Now that you’re with another it breaks my heart somehow
I won’t care a hundred years from now
CHORUS
2. Now do you recall the night sweetheart you promised
Another’s kiss you never would allow
That’s all in the past dear it didn’t seem to last
I won’t care a hundred years from now
CHORUS
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Unfaithful One
CHORUS:
Unfaithful one you’ll have to suffer
You’re doomed to go through life alone
For no one else will ever trust you
They’ll know your heart is made of stone
1. I still recall our happy years dear
Our love was fresh as flowers of spring
But now you’ve left me for a stranger
You’ve lost the right to wear my ring
CHORUS
2. So blue was I the day you left me
My heart was sad and lonely too
My place was taken by this stranger
You traded an old love for a new
CHORUS
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Down The Road
1. Now down the road just a mile or two
Lives a little girl named Pearly Blue
About so high and her hair is brown
The prettiest thing boys in this town
2. Now anytime you want to know
Where I’m going, down the road
Get my girl on the line
You’ll find me there most any old time
3. Now everyday and Sunday too
I go to see my Pearly Blue
Before you hear that rooster crow
You’ll see me headed down the road
4. Now old man Hicks he owned a farm
From the hog lot to the barn
From the barn to the rail
He made his living by carrying the mail
5. Now every time I get the blues
I walk the soles right off my shoes
I don’t know why I love her so
That gal of mine lives down the road
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I’d Rather Be Alone
CHORUS:
I’d rather be alone and have you dream of me only
Than have you say you’re sorry that we are apart
I’d rather be alone and have you dream of me only
Than to be in your arms but never in your heart
1. Well I’ve just received your letter you asked me to come home
You say you’re sorry that you went away
This is an old old story and I’ve heard it all before
So darling this is all that I can say
CHORUS
2. I tried so hard my darling to make you love me then
‘Cause you would always leave me here alone
And although I could forgive you things would be the same
Nothing could ever change your heart of stone
CHORUS
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Big Spike Hammer
1. Can’t you hear the rhythm of my big spike hammer
Lord it’s busting my side
I’ve done all I can do to keep that woman
Still she’s not satisfied
CHORUS:
Hey, hey Della Mae
Why do you treat me this way
Hey, hey Della Mae
I’ll get even some day
2. I’m the best hammer swinger on this big section gang
Big Bill Johnson is my name
Lord this hammer that I swing for a dollar and a half a day
I’ll all for my Della Mae
CHORUS
3. Now I’ve been lots of places, not much I ain’t done
There’s still a lot of things I’d like to see
Lord this hammer that I swing or the woman that I love
Yes, one’s gonna be the death of me
CHORUS
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Please Search Your Heart
Please search your heart and maybe you’ll find
A reason to stay I’m begging this time
I know I was wrong, but darling I’ve paid
Please search your heart before it’s too late
When you left me I said that I’d never be blue
That I wouldn’t cry if you found someone new
But this is my plea, give me one more try
Please search your heart, don’t tell me goodbye.
Please search your heart, don’t tell me goodbye
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Hey Lonesome
CHORUS:
Hey lonesome who broke your heart into
Hey lonesome who left you with the blues
1. I never will forget the day
That you threw my dreams away
When I told you there’d come a day
For all your wrongs to end you’d pay
CHORUS
2. You didn’t care what I went through
You left me here to cry
You knew my love for you was true
But still you said good bye
CHORUS
3. I tried to tell you when you left
That you’d be back someday
But I’ve done found me some one else
And here is all I’ve got to say
CHORUS
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I’m Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling
CHORUS:
I’m waiting to hear you call me darling
I’m waiting to hear you call me dear
You know that I have always loved you
Don’t make me lonely all these years
1. Two years ago when I first met you
You smiled at me and looked so sweet
You made me think you cared about me
But you never said that you loved me
CHORUS
2. Oh maybe I took too much for granted
To think you’d ever love me
Please oh please don’t try to fool me
‘Cause all you’d cause is misery
CHORUS
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Wall Around Your Heart
CHORUS:
Stone must be the wall built around your heart
I still love you darling, but the time has come to part
No more sorrow, no more pain, can enter this heart of mine
Life isn’t long in this old world let the past stay behind
1. I once had a darling sweetheart and I loved her so
I love her more than I could ever let my poor heart show
But she ran away and left me and found somebody else
She left me here in this old world to cry all to myself
CHORUS
2. I know somewhere in this old world there is a girl for me
She won’t long for wealth and fame just love and sympathy
I don’t know where she lives maybe across the sea
But the walls of Jericho can’t keep her away from me
CHORUS
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Come Back Darling
1. Tonight as I sit by my window
I’m reading your letter so true
I’m hoping to find it in your letter
Where you say I’ll come back to you.
CHORUS:
Oh come back to me little darling
I miss you each day and each night
Oh come back to me little darling
Don’t leave me alone all my life
2. I know I can never be happy
No matter whatever I do
I know it’s harsh and lonely without you
Oh won’t you come back and be true.
CHORUS
3. Oh what will I do without you
My life is so lonely and blue
No matter what happens, my darling
I just can’t forget loving you.
CHORUS
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Age
1. I’ve been up and down and around and ‘round and back again
I’ve been so many places I can’t remember where or when
And my only boss is the clock on the wall and my only friend
Never really was a friend at all
CHORUS:
Well I traded love for pennies and sold my soul for less
Lost my deals in that long tunnel of time
And I turned inside out and ‘round about and back again
Found myself right back where I started again.
2. Once I had myself a million now I’ve only got a dime
The difference don’t seem quite as bad today
With a nickle or million I was searching all the time
For something that I’ve never lost or left behind.
CHORUS
3. And now I’m in my second circle and I’m heading for the top
I’ve learned a lot of things along the way
I’ll be careful while I’m climbing ‘cause it hurts a lot to drop
When you’re down nobody gives a damn anyway.
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Cora Is Gone
1. The wind through the night is blowing so lonesome
Singing to me a song
A whippoorwill call is just a reminder
Pretty girls have hearts made of stone
CHORUS:
I’ll wake with the blues at dawn
My darling Cora is gone
I don’t know why she told me goodbye
But my darling Cora is gone
2. The ring that she wears I bought for her finger
Purchased her raiment so fine
Gave her my last green back dollar
And now she’s left me behind
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3. Drifting along like a brush on a river
Caring not where I roam
Going to live in a deep forest
Dark hollow will be my new home
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The Old Home Town
1. Tonight my heart is lonely for the folks back home
Where I left my mother and daddy all alone
There’s been a lot of changes since I been around
I’d like to wander back to the old home town
CHORUS:
You’ll never miss the home folks until you’ve gone away
Then you’ll need a friend to help you every day
Then you’ll call on mother but she won’t be around
I’d like to wander back to the old home town
2. I’ve searched this whole world over since I’ve been around
I’ve never found a place just like the old home town
If I could live life over I’d never roam around
I’d like to wander back to the old home day
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Talk It All Over With Him
1. I’m gonna sit down and rest gently lean on His breast
I’ll talk it all over with Him
I’ll see my mother and dad truest friends I ever had
I’ll talk it all over with Him
CHORUS:
I’m gonna sit, I’m gonna stand up, gonna walk all around
I’ll talk it all over with Him
I’ll meet old’ Peter and Paul but the best of it all
I’ll talk it all over with Him
2. Up in that land of sweet rest with the good and the blessed
I’ll talk it all over with Him
And by my Savior’s dear side I will ever abide
I’ll talk it all over with Him
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3. So many things in this land I shall ne’er understand
I’ll talk it all over with Him
I’ll still be true to my Lord as we live in accord
I’ll talk it all over with Him
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Head Over Heels
1. I think I’ll go across the ocean
If I don’t change my notion
I’ve just got to forget you if I can
CHORUS:
I’m feeling so blue I don’t know what to do
’Cause I’m head over heels in love with you
2. Every day is sad and lonely
For I’m thinking of you only
I just can’t sleep when I lay down
CHORUS
3. Oh I’d like to be forgiven
But this life ain’t worth living
If have to sit and worry over you
CHORUS
4. Oh the nights are long and dreary
All I do is sit and worry
I just can’t bear the thought of losing you
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Nobody Loves Me
1. Nobody loves me nobody cares
If life is empty and full of tears
I long for true love searched everywhere
Nobody loves me nobody cares
2. Searching for true love has been in vain
Through years my heart has suffered with pain
Life’s lonesome burden now I must bear
Nobody loves me nobody cares
3. Nights on my pillow I dream of you
Through space I gaze at the stars above
They seem to whisper from way up there
Nobody loves me nobody cares
4. A lonesome heart and a troubled mind
In this old world now is all I find
I look to heaven for I know there
Someone will love me someone will care
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When You Are Lonely
1. Oh I’m thinking of you, little darling
On the day that we first met
And those words sweetheart that you told me
I’m sure I’ll never forget
CHORUS:
Oh, someday, sweetheart, when you’re lonely
And have no one to care for you
Remember the heart you have broken
And the one that has loved you so true
2. You told me that you always would love me
That no one could ever come between
But it seems to me you’ve forgotten
All those things you told to me
CHORUS
3. I’ll forget all those things that you told me
And try to start our life anew
But remember the heart you have broken
And the one that has loved you so true
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I Might Take You Back Again
CHORUS:
Go now don’t wait
Please don’t hesitate
Loving you was my great sin
And I might take you back again
1. For a long time the world stood still
I loved you then and I always will
But to me you’ve been untrue
There is nothing I can do
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2. Well here you are you’re back again
I know that I just can’t win
You broke my heart most every day
And now you best be on your way
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Lonesome Wind Blues
CHORUS:
I hear that wind a-blowing through the lonesome pine
And I know my love is gone too
I hear that wind a-blowing through the lonesome pine
That’s why I’m blue love, so blue
1. She’s gone so far away that’s why I’m leaving
She’s left me here alone among the trees
And all that I have left is just a memory
And it always haunts me with a breeze
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2. I’ll leave today to try to find my darling
I don’t know where on earth she may be
I only know that I can’t live without her
Each night in dreams her face is all I see
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Somehow Tonight
CHORUS:
Somehow tonight I feel lonely my darling
Somehow tonight I feel blue
Somehow tonight these tears of mine keep falling
Come back sweetheart and be true
1. I thought you’re love was something I could treasure
To brighten my pathway through the years
Now all I can see is darkness in the future
That’s why I long to have you near
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2. I never new what loneliness meant darling
Until I watched you walk away
I long to hear you whisper that you love me
I can’t forget our happy days
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Rock Hearts
CHORUS:
Rock hearts will break believe it my dear
And yours will break in two I fear
And when it does dear don’t run to me
For it will be too late you see
1. Why did you break my heart and throw it down
Why did you spread the news all over town
Why did you make me your laughing stock
Because you’ve got a heart of rock
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2. You didn’t break my heart by running round
Another new love you have not found
You only handed me back a lock
You had around your heart of rock
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Big Black Train
Well I’ve had the blues
But now they’re gone
I’m on a big black freight train
And I’m moving on
1. I’m on a big black train and I’m moving on
I’m on a big black train and I’ll soon be gone
Oh this big black freight train, just keeps moving on
2. If you want me baby, better get on the track
I got a one-way ticket and I won’t be back
Oh this big black freight train, it’s moving down the railroad track
3. Well you cheated on me baby and you told me lies
You said that you was gonna laugh every time I cried
Oh that big black freight train telling you goodbye
4. I’m on a big black train and I’m moving on
I’m on a big black train and I’ll soon be gone
Oh this big black freight train, it keeps moving on
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Thinking About You
1. Now as I sigh the hours away
I think of love of yesterday
Now I know she’s gone away
She’s in heaven so they say
CHORUS:
Will the angels tell her for me
That my love will never die
Someday I’ll walk along beside her
On that golden way up there
2. Now all my life I lived so gaily
Until she had to go away
Then she left me oh so lonely
She lies at rest beneath the clay
CHORUS
3. Each night I think about you dear
I wonder if you’ll hold me then
When I meet you up in heaven
We’ll have life eternal there
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Out In The Cold World
1. Out in the cold world and far away from home
some mother’s boy is wandering all alone.
No one to guide him or keep his footsteps right
Some mother’s boy is homeless tonight.
CHORUS:
Bring back to me my wandering boy
For there is no other who’s left to give me joy
Tell him that his mother with faded cheeks and hair
Is at the old home place awaiting him there
2. Out in the hallway then stands a vacant chair
And an old pair of shoes he used to wear
Empty is the cradle he used to love so well
Oh how I miss him no tongue can tell.
CHORUS
3. Well I remember those parting words he said
Well meet up yonder where tears are never shed
In that land of sunshine, away from toil and care
When life is over, I’ll meet you up there
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On The Old Kentucky Shore
1. I walked out to the graveyard
Down by the church of God
I looked upon those marbles there
That would soon be covered with sod
CHORUS:
Up along the Ohio River
Over on the old Kentucky shore
Once dwelled a fair young maiden
Now there’s a crepe upon her door
2. The angels took my darling
God needed the one I loved
I reached the old Kentucky shore today
I’ll make my plans and meet her up above
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3. The last words that my darling said
Was tell the one I love goodbye
I would like to see him before I go
But I’ll meet him in the sky
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Preaching, Praying, Singing
CHORUS:
Preaching, praying, singing everywhere
Shouting the praises of his love and care
All of God’s children seem to gather there
Preaching, praying, singing out on the public square
1. I was a stranger there intent upon my way
But when I saw the crowd, I had the urge to stay
All of God’s children seem to gather there
Preaching, praying, singing out on the public square
CHORUS
2. I felt so much at home amid the happy throng
That came from far and near to praise His name in song
To lay their burdens down, forget their every care
And have and old time meeting out on the public square
CHORUS
3. Now as I journey on, think back on the day
I am convinced within, these folks have found the way
To put their hearts in song, just pray an earnest prayer
And leave the door bells ringing down on the public square
CHORUS
Preaching, praying, singing out on the public square
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Someone Took My Place With You
1. Now someone took my place with you
Now you tell me we are through
Someone broke my heart in two
When they took my place with you
Now someone left me here to cry
And with each day that passes by
Now I’m found here alone and blue
‘Cause someone took my place with you
2. In days to come I know you’ll find
When you’ve left me here behind
Someday I’m sure that you will find
You wrecked your life as well as mine
When it’s too late to make amends
I’m sure you’ll pay the price and then
Now you’ll be there alone and blue
‘Cause someone took my place with you
Now someone left me here to cry
And with each day that passes by
Now I’m found here alone and blue
‘Cause someone took my place with you
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My Home’s Across The Blue Ridge Mountains
CHORUS:
My home’s across the blue ridge mountains
My home’s across the blue ridge mountains
My home’s across the blue ridge mountains
And I never expect to see you anymore
1. How can I keep from crying?
How can I keep from crying?
How can I keep from crying?
For I never expect to see you anymore
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2. Oh how I hate to leave you
Oh how I hate to leave you
Oh how I hate to leave you
For I never expect to see you anymore
CHORUS
3. So goodbye my little darling
So goodbye my little darling
So goodbye my little darling
I never expect to see you anymore
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Along About Daybreak
1. When we were young and we thought we loved each other
But you didn’t love me I guess
For you’ve gone and you’ve found another
Everything to you is regret
CHORUS:
This morning along about daybreak
You quarreled at me the whole night through
I know it’s not too late for your sake dear
But for me I will always be blue
2. Oh I’m weary my darling weary
Just to know your love’s gone cold
For without you life will be so dreary
We’ll need each other when we grow old
CHORUS
3. Oh sweetheart be good to our babies
And I want you to teach them to pray
Tell them to say a little prayer for their daddy
Where he will be no one can say
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Sweet Sunny South
1. Take me back to the place where I first saw the light
To the sweet sunny south take me home
Where the mockingbirds sing me to sleep in the night
Oh why was I tempted to roam
2. I think with regret of the dear home I left
Of the warm hearts that sheltered me there
Of my wife and my family of whom I’m bereft
For the old place again do I sigh
3. Take me back to the place where the orange trees grow
To my home in the evergreen shade
Where the flowers from the river’s green margins did grow
And spread their sweet scent through the glade
4. Oh the path to our cottage they say has grown green
And the place is quite lonely around
And I know that the faces and forms that I loved
Now lie ‘neath the cold mossy ground
5. Take me back to the place where my little ones sleep
For boyhood lies very close by
O’er the graves of my loved ones I long for to weep
and among them to rest when I die
6. But yet I return to the place of my birth
For the children have played around the door
And I know that no matter how long I may live
They’ll echo their footsteps no more
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